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Project Yokota…

And it is done! Say hello to the 2013 Yokota Legend K: There are lots of pictures of the build components and closeups of the components on the final build in the Yokota Legend Gallery. You can also read the full adventure here: Project Yakota Project Yakota - Update 1 Project Yakota - Update 2 Project Yakota - Update 3 Project Yakota - Update 4 Total cost of this project: Yakota Legend Frame - $113 Sandblasting and Powdercoating - $150 FSA Orbit X Theadless Headset - $40 Most Ocelot Saddle - $30 Look HSC Carbon Fork - $139 Marin 1-1/8" Handlebar Stem - $21 1" to 1-1/8" Stem Adapter - $7 1-1/8" Carbon Fiber Stem Cap - $7 SRAM Rival Brake/Shift Levers - $203 SRAM Rival Crankset - $185 DT Swiss R1850 Wheelset (w/Continental Gatorskin tires) - $300 SRAM Force Rear Derailleur - $69 SRAM Rival Brakeset - $85 Carbon Headtube spacers - $12 FSA Wing Compact Handlebars - $38 SRAM PG1070 Cassette - $44 SRAM GXP Bottom Bracket - $8 KMC x10 Chain - $22 Profile Design Carbon Stryke Aerobars -$81…

Permanent link to “Project Yokota - Yokota Legend K”
Permanent link to “Project Yokota - Update 4”
Permanent link to “Louis Armond Vouvray (2010)”
Permanent link to “Step by Step Sauvignon Blanc (2008)”
Permanent link to “Cycles Gladiator Cabernet Sauvignon (2009)”
Permanent link to “Domaine D'Arton Vin de Pays des Côtes de Gascogne (2009)”
Permanent link to “Barons de Rothschild (Lafite) Sauvignon Blanc Los Vascos (2010)”
Permanent link to “Kumeu River Village Chardonnay (2006)”
Project Yokota…

It's now been six months since I started with Project Yokota and have acquired the next batch of parts towards its build. The first item would be a SRAM Force Rear Derailleur: Followed by a SRAM Rival Brakeset: To install the handlebar stem and set the stack height on the fork, I needed some 1" Carbon Headtube Spacers: And then connected to the stem will be a set of FSA Wing Compact Handlebars: The drivetrain connection to the rear wheel will be a SRAM PG1070 Cassette: Holding the crankset will be a SRAM GXP Bottom Bracket: There's a lot of old grease on it in this picture, but it's actually in very good condition. Related, I had to buy a Park Tool BBT-9 Bottom Bracket Tool ($16) in order to install it. This is a tool I can use in the future so I'm not considering its cost a part of this build. Connecting the crankset to the cassette will be a KMC X10 Chain: If I'm going to ride this bike much at all, I can't imagine doing it without a set of Profile Design Carbon Stryke Aerobars…

Permanent link to “Project Yokota - Update 3”
Permanent link to “Wishing Tree Shiraz (2006)”
Permanent link to “Terrazas de Los Andes Malbec Altos del Plata (210)”
Permanent link to “Bodegas Antonio Candela & Hijos Monastrell Yecla Barahonda (2005)”
Permanent link to “Martinborough Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc Te Tera (2007)”
Permanent link to “Boekenhoutskloof Franschook The Wolftrap Syrah (2008)”
Permanent link to “Wayne Gretzky Estates Cabernet Sauvignon No. 99 (2005)”
Permanent link to “Morgan Chardonnay Metallico (2006)”
Permanent link to “Heartland Stickleback Red (2007)”
Permanent link to “Fattoria L'Ottavo Ottavio Toscana”
Permanent link to “Valle Dell'Asso Galatina (2007)”
Permanent link to “Studert-Prüm Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett (2004)”
Permanent link to “Renegades Langhorne Creek Meritage (2005)”
Permanent link to “Saladini Pilastri Offida Pecorino (2010)”
Permanent link to “Domaine Michaud Touraine Sauvignon Blanc (2009)”
Permanent link to “Brancott Estate Sauvignon Blanc (2010)”
Permanent link to “Bodegas Navalon Tempranillo Valdepeñas Anciano Reserva - Aged 5 Years (2004)”
Permanent link to “Fattoria L'Ottavo Chianti Classico (2005)”
Permanent link to “Real Companhia Velha Douro Evel (2005)”
Permanent link to “Renegades Barossa Valley Shiraz (2006)”
Permanent link to “Château Laforet Bordeaux Supérieur (2009)”
Permanent link to “Montes Cabernet Sauvignon (2008)”
Permanent link to “Castle Rock Cabernet Sauvignon (2007)”
Permanent link to “Domaine de Gournier Sauvignon Blanc Vin de Pays des Cévennes (2009)”
Permanent link to “La Maialina Chianti (2009)”
Permanent link to “Montebuena Rioja (2009)”
Permanent link to “Emiliana Cabernet Sauvignon Natura (2009)”
Permanent link to “D'Orsaria "Bear" Pinot Grigio (2009)”
Permanent link to “Gazela Vinho Verde (2009)”
Permanent link to “Baron Philippe de Rothschild Mouton Cadet Bordeaux (2008)”
Permanent link to “Château Jalousie Bordeaux Supérieur (2005)”
Permanent link to “Greystone Cellars Chardonnay (2009)”
Permanent link to “Bodegas Enguera Valencia Pelta (2008)”
Permanent link to “Ocaso Torrontés (2010)”
Permanent link to “Michael-David Vineyards Zinfandel 7 Deadly Zins (2009)”
Permanent link to “Domaine Joël Delaunay Sauvignon Blanc (2008)”
Permanent link to “Apothic Winemaker's Blend (2009)”
Permanent link to “Oddfellows Shiraz The Winner's Tank Eskadale (2006)”
Permanent link to “Sorrel Canyon Chardonnay (2009)”
Permanent link to “Domaine Manciat-Poncet St. Véran (2009)”
Permanent link to “Vintage Ink indelible wines (2005)”
Permanent link to “Saldini Pilastri Rosso Piceno Rosso Piceno (2008)”
Permanent link to “Burgo Viejo Rioja Crianza (2005)”

March 2013

Permanent link to “Castell del Remei Costers del Segre Blanc Planell (2009)”
Permanent link to “River Road Vineyards Zinfandel Dempel Vineyard (2004)”
Permanent link to “Swartland Winery Pinotage (2007)”
Permanent link to “Rosemount Shiraz (2008)”
Permanent link to “Sauvion Vouvray (2008)”
Permanent link to “Collegiata Montepulciano d'Abruzzos (2009)”
Permanent link to “Barnard Griffin Fumé Blanc (2009)”
Permanent link to “Viñedos de Aldeanueva Rioja Cortijo III (2008)”
Permanent link to “Lindemans Cabernet Sauvignon Bin 45 (2009)”
Permanent link to “The Little Penguin Pinot Noir (2010)”
Permanent link to “Jacobs Creek Shiraz (2008)”
Permanent link to “The Other Guys Cabernet Sauvignon Leese-Fitch (2009)”
Permanent link to “Dancing Bull Zinfandel (2009)”
Permanent link to “Château de Lavagnac Bordeaux Supérieur (2007)”
Permanent link to “Gold Oak Hill Chardonnay (2008)”
Permanent link to “Archstone Cabernet Sauvignon (2007)”
Permanent link to “Cave de Vouvray Vouvray Lieu-Dit Les Fosses d'Hareng (2005)”
Permanent link to “Bodegas Luzon Jumilla (2005)”
Permanent link to “Las Olas Rueda (2009)”
Permanent link to “Serenity Vineyards Syrah (2005)”
Permanent link to “Park Lane Zinfandel (2006)”
Permanent link to “Piccini Chianti (2007)”
Permanent link to “Lindemans Shiraz Bin 50 (2009)”
Permanent link to “McManis Family Vineyards Syrah (2007)”
Permanent link to “Waterbrook Riesling (2007)”
Permanent link to “Château Luau Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc (2006)”
Permanent link to “Bodegas Barco de Piedra Ribera del Duero (2008)”
Permanent link to “Ironstone Vineyards Old Vine Zinfandel (2008)”
Permanent link to “Painted Wolf Wines Pinotage (2007)”
Permanent link to “Lexicon Cabernet Sauvignon (2008)”
Permanent link to “Domaine de la Bouysse Corbières Roc Long (2004)”
Permanent link to “Burgo Viejo Rioja Crianza (2005)”
Permanent link to “Cholila Ranch Malbec (2007)”
Permanent link to “Vin de Pays des Côtes de Gascogne Colombard Ugni Blanc (2007)”
Permanent link to “Di Majo Norante Sangiovese Terre degli Osci IGT (2007)”
Permanent link to “Thorn-Clarke Shiraz Terra Barossa (2008)”
Permanent link to “Cave de Saumur Saumur Réserve des Vignerons (2006)”
Permanent link to “River Road Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon (2006)”
Permanent link to “Sobon Estate Zinfandel Vicious Zin (2008)”
Permanent link to “Cave de L'Aurore Bourgogne (2006)”
Permanent link to “Chakana Malbec Cueva de Las Manos Reserve (2007)”
Permanent link to “Columbia Crest Gewürztraminer Two Vines”
Permanent link to “Casa Dora Brut Cava”
Permanent link to “Sorrel Canyon Zinfandel (2006)”
Permanent link to “Dacu Ribera del Guadiana (2007)”
PolarLava CycleLog…

It's been quite a while since I recorded the most recent changes to my CycleLog. I hadn't documented it previously, but what I would now call v2.6.0 updated the ride display page. When I bought the Quattro last year I needed to update this page to record the litany of new data points it provided over some of my other computers. While working on this I also integrated Google Maps of my recorded route. This is something I started a couple 2-3 years ago being I could record them on my phone using Google's nifty My Tracks Android application. Once recorded I could easily create an external link to the map, but I've finally embedded them into my CycleLog data. I now just pull the map embed code to include with my logged ride data. Presto, maps right on the ride page! For v2.7.0 I've updated the Cycling Yearly Summary page. The quick and simple change was another that I've been wanting to do for quite some time. That being, reverse the order from first to newest year (1995-2013) to now be…

Permanent link to “PolarLava CycleLog V2.6.0 & V2.7.0”
Permanent link to “d'Arenberg Shiraz The Stump Jump (2007)”
Permanent link to “Bodegas La Cartuja Priorat (2008)”
Permanent link to “Château Briot Red Bordeaux”
Permanent link to “Project Yokota - Update 2”
Permanent link to “Araldica Gavi La Luciana (2008)”
Permanent link to “Sorrel Canyon Chardonnay (2007)”
Permanent link to “Anthony Mirabella Sparkling Cider (2009)”
Permanent link to “Sorrel Canyon Cabernet Sauvignon (2003)”
Permanent link to “Herbauges Muscadet-Côtes de Grandlieu Sur Lie Clos de la Fine (2007)”
Permanent link to “Tait The Ball Buster (2007)”
Permanent link to “Park Lane Cabernet Sauvignon (2005)”
Permanent link to “Water Wheel Memsie (2006)”
Permanent link to “S.A. Prüm Riesling Essence (2007)”
Permanent link to “Penfolds Cabernet Sauvignon Rawson's Retreat (2008)”
Permanent link to “Argentum Malbec (2008)”
Permanent link to “Clante Chianti (2007)”
Permanent link to “Hayman & Hill Interchange Santa Barbara County (2006)”
Permanent link to “Ravenswood Petite Sirah Vintners Blend (2007)”
Permanent link to “Teddy Hall Chenin Blanc (2007)”
Permanent link to “Goats do Roam Goats do Roam (2008)”
Permanent link to “Bodegas Gormaz Ribera del Duero (2006)”
Permanent link to “Arroyo del Sol Vineyards Pinot Noir Arroyo Seco (2005)”
Permanent link to “Chateau l'Ermitage Cuvée Tradition Blanc (2008)”
Permanent link to “Natale Verga Prosecco (2008)”
Permanent link to “Château Lavagnac Bordeaux Supérieur (2005)”
Permanent link to “Hermanos del Villar Verdejo Rueda Ipsum (2008)”
Permanent link to “Nugan Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Visión (2007)”
Permanent link to “Ma Fleur Pinot Noir (2008)”
Permanent link to “Domaine de Pouy Vin de Pays des Côtes de Gascogne (2006)”
Permanent link to “Mionetto IL Prosecco Venezie (2007)”
Permanent link to “Vinos Jeromín Vinos de Madrid Zestos Especial (2007)”
Permanent link to “Step by Step Cabernet Sauvignon (2007)”
Permanent link to “Hallopière Chardonnay (2007)”
Permanent link to “Obvio Malbec (2007)”
Permanent link to “Fattoria L'Ottavo Chianti Classico (2003)”
Permanent link to “Domaine Michaud Touraine Sauvignon Blanc (2007)”
Permanent link to “Cycles Gladiator Merlot (2006)”
Permanent link to “Concha y Toro Frontera Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot (2008)”
Permanent link to “Aires de Arosa Albariño Rías Baixas (2005)”
Permanent link to “R Wines Shiraz Strong Arms (2007)”
Permanent link to “Chateau St. Jean Cabernet Sauvignon (2007)”
Permanent link to “Penfolds Koonunga Hill Cabernet Merlot (2006)”
Permanent link to “Black Opal Shiraz (2007)”
Permanent link to “Oskar Blues Dale's Pale Ale”
Permanent link to “New Holland The Poet Oatmeal Stout”
Permanent link to “Sierra Nevada Southern Hemisphere Harvest Fresh Hop Ale (2012)”
Permanent link to “Yuengling Bock”
Permanent link to “Southampton IPA”

February 2013

Permanent link to “Sand Creek Wild Ride IPA”
Permanent link to “Mackinaw West Bay IPA”
Permanent link to “Great Divide Rumble Oak Aged IPA”
Permanent link to “Tröegs Perpetual IPA”
Permanent link to “Middle Ages Impaled Ale”
Permanent link to “Pyramid Outburst Imperial IPA”
Permanent link to “New Belgium Ranger”
Permanent link to “Spoetzl Shiner Bock”
Permanent link to “Anchor Summer Beer”
Permanent link to “The Alchemist Heady Topper Imperial IPA”
Permanent link to “Cisco Moor Porter”
Permanent link to “Sierra Nevada Hoptimum Imperial IPA”
Permanent link to “Maredsous 6 - Blonde”
Permanent link to “Lagunitas New Dogtown Pale Ale”
Permanent link to “Harpoon Summer Beer”
Permanent link to “Mendocino Saratoga IPA”
Permanent link to “Southern Tier 2X Milk Stout”
Permanent link to “Pyramid Hefeweizen”
Permanent link to “Ale Asylum Contorter”
Permanent link to “Ale Asylum Hopalicious”
Permanent link to “Artisanale Du Flo Blonde”
Permanent link to “Ale Asylum Ambergeddon”
Permanent link to “French Broad Anvil Porter”
Permanent link to “Upright Five Saison”
Permanent link to “Wagner Valley Sugar House Maple Porter”
Permanent link to “Pyramid Thunderhead IPA”
Permanent link to “Otter Creek Spring Bock”
Permanent link to “Southern Tier Gemini Imperial Blended Ale”
Permanent link to “Abita Jockamo IPA”
Permanent link to “Shipyard Blue Fin Stout”
Permanent link to “Nectar IPA”
Permanent link to “Custom Brewcrafters MacBubba Scotch Ale”
Permanent link to “New Belgium Abbey Belgian Style Ale”
Permanent link to “Kona Pipeline Porter”
Permanent link to “Sierra Nevada Ovila Quad”
Permanent link to “Gaffel Kölsch”
Permanent link to “Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye IPA”
Permanent link to “Starr Hill Northern Lights IPA”
Permanent link to “Mission IPA”
Permanent link to “Southampton Imperial Porter”
Permanent link to “Heavy Seas Märzen”
Permanent link to “Harpoon Chocolate Stout”
Permanent link to “Dogfish Head Miles Davis' Bitches Brew”
Permanent link to “St. Bernardus Christmas Ale”
Permanent link to “Tyranena Chief BlackHawk Porter”
Permanent link to “Tröegs Mad Elf”
Permanent link to “Victory Baltic Thunder”
Permanent link to “Heavy Seas Small Craft Warning”
Permanent link to “Dogfish Head Raison D'Être”
Permanent link to “Rogue Mocha Porter”
Permanent link to “Wagner Valley Oatmeal Stout”
Permanent link to “Flying Bison Aviator Red”
Permanent link to “Stevens Point Black Ale (2012)”
Permanent link to “Stone 15th Anniversary Escondidian Imperial Black IPA”
Permanent link to “Southern Tier Unearthly IPA”
Permanent link to “Heavy Seas Loose Cannon”
Permanent link to “Middle Ages Dragonslayer”
Permanent link to “Cooperstown Old Slugger”
Permanent link to “Sackets Harbor War Of 1812 Ale”
Permanent link to “Weyerbacher Heresy”
Permanent link to “Anheuser-Busch Wild Blue Blueberry Lager”
Permanent link to “Three Heads Skunk Black IPA”
Permanent link to “Bear Republic Racer 5 IPA”
Permanent link to “Ommegang Three Philosophers Belgian Quadrupel”
Permanent link to “Saranac Adirondack Lager”
Permanent link to “Saranac Brown Ale”
Permanent link to “Ommegang Tripel Perfection”
Permanent link to “Ommegang BPA”
Permanent link to “Stone IPA”
Permanent link to “Pinkus Mueller Organic Hefe-Weizen”
Permanent link to “Victory Old Horizontal”
Permanent link to “Bosteels Pauwel Kwak”
Permanent link to “Redhook Wit”
Permanent link to “Post Road Pumpkin Ale”
Permanent link to “Sierra Nevada Tumbler Autumn Brown Ale”
Permanent link to “Wolaver's Pumpkin Ale”
Permanent link to “Great Lakes Lake Erie Monster”
Project Yokota…

So here's where I am after 4 months with Project Yokota. I had to buy a Park Tool BBT-22 ($22) to remove the bottom bracket that came with the frame. Being a tool this is something I can reuse, so I am not considering it a cost of this build. Removing the handlebar stem, the front fork and the headset was relatively easy and didn't require any new tools. Once I was down to just the frame I took it to be sandblasted and then powder coated...bright yellow: I had the fork done as well being it was only about $10 even though I don't plan on using it. Next up I bought a new headset. I'm switching from the old style threaded headset to an FSA Orbit X Threadless Headset: And most recently I got a steal of a deal -less than half the price I've ever seen it for, on a Most Ocelot Saddle: So at this point the cost of this project has been: Yakota Legend Frame - $113 Sandblasting and Powdercoating - $150 FSA Orbit X Theadless Headset - $40 Most Ocelot Saddle - $30 Current Cost: $348 Not too bad…

Permanent link to “Project Yokota - Update 1”
Permanent link to “Southern Tier Iniquity Imperial Black Ale”
Permanent link to “Atwater Vanilla Java Porter”
Permanent link to “Sierra Nevada Summerfest Lager (2010)”
Permanent link to “Victory Prima Pils”
Permanent link to “Victory Headwaters Pale Ale”
Permanent link to “Southern Tier Backburner Barleywine”

January 2013

Permanent link to “Cisco Indie Pale Ale”
Permanent link to “Great Divide Hades Ale”
Permanent link to “Stoudts Pils”
Permanent link to “Lagunitas Undercover Investigation Shut-down Ale”
Permanent link to “Ithaca Pale Ale”
Permanent link to “Dogfish Head World Wide Stout”
Permanent link to “Breckenridge 471 Double IPA”
Permanent link to “La Rullés Cuvée Meilleurs Voeux”
Permanent link to “Buffalo Bill's Alimony Ale”
Permanent link to “Alaskan Amber”
Permanent link to “Weyerbacher Verboten”
Permanent link to “Ellicottville Mowmasters Ultra Pale Ale”
Permanent link to “Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine (2011)”
Permanent link to “Bad Elmer's Porter”
Permanent link to “Flying Dog Snake Dog IPA”
Permanent link to “Bell's Two Hearted Ale”
Permanent link to “Westmalle Trappist Tripel”
Permanent link to “Left Hand 400 Pound Monkey”
Permanent link to “Hofbräu München Maibock”
Permanent link to “Trappistes Rochefort 6”
Permanent link to “Peak Organic IPA”
Permanent link to “Stevens Point Einbock”
Permanent link to “Flying Dog Garde Dog”
Permanent link to “Stoudt's Scarlet Lady ESB”
Permanent link to “Buffalo Bill's Blueberry Oatmeal Stout”
Permanent link to “Stone Smoked Porter”
Permanent link to “Custom Brewcrafters Caged Alpha Monkey IPA”
Permanent link to “Yakima Glory”
Permanent link to “Saranac Vanilla Stout”
Permanent link to “Lost Coast Tangerine Wheat”
Permanent link to “Paper City India'n Pale Ale”
Permanent link to “Victory St. Boisterous Hellerbock”
Permanent link to “Flying Dog Doggie Style Classic Pale Ale”
Permanent link to “Boulder Singletrack Copper Ale”
Permanent link to “Corsendonk Abbey Pale Ale”
Permanent link to “Stoudt's Fat Dog Imperial Oatmeal Stout”
Permanent link to “Samuel Adams Chocolate Bock”
Permanent link to “Tröegs Dead Reckoning Porter”
Permanent link to “Achel Trappist Extra”
Permanent link to “Geary's Pale Ale”
Permanent link to “Wagner Valley Sled Dog Dopplebock”
Permanent link to “Left Hand Sawtooth Ale”
Permanent link to “Hofbräu München Hefe Weizen”
Permanent link to “Anchor Small Beer”
Permanent link to “Flying Bison Blizzard Bock”
Permanent link to “La Choulette De Noël”
Permanent link to “Affligem Blond”
Permanent link to “Long Trail Imperial Porter”
Permanent link to “Anchor Christmas Ale (2010)”
Permanent link to “Goose Island Christmas Ale (2009)”
Permanent link to “Derailed Black Cherry Ale”
Permanent link to “Kulmbacher Reichelbrau Eisbock”
Permanent link to “Lost Coast Indica India Pale Ale”
Permanent link to “Lindemans Kriek”
Permanent link to “Stevens Point St. Benedict's Winter Ale”
Permanent link to “Otter Creek Alpine Black IPA”
Permanent link to “Full Sail Wassail”
Permanent link to “Sierra Nevada Northern Hemisphere Harvest Wet Hop Ale (2012)”
Permanent link to “Arcadia Sky High Rye”
Permanent link to “Harpoon Grateful Harvest Cranberry Ale”
Feeling Stupid

"Did you do something with the girl's bikes?" "No, are they gone?" I didn't even need to wait for the response from my wife, I knew. Anger. Distress. Sadness. A desperate hope in vain that there's an explanation. There is not. They are gone. Somebody had stolen my daughters bikes sometime in the past few days. That evening and the evenings since, I cruise around the neighborhood on my way home from work. I hope to see them...I don't. I filed a police report knowing it was in vain. I told the officer that took the report, "I know I'm never going to see them again." To which he responds, "I'm not supposed to say this, but you're never going to see them again." I know, but I hope. I love bikes, I watch for bikes things on Craigslist and Ebay all the time. I now read the Craigslist entries and my heart jumps every time I see "girls" or "Trek" in the subject. I hope it's them. It's not, nor will it ever be. And then I'm crushed…

Permanent link to “Feeling Stupid”
Permanent link to “Long Trail Hibernator”
Permanent link to “Anchor Humming Ale”
Permanent link to “Gayant Saint Landelin La Divine”
Permanent link to “Harpoon Belgian Pale Ale”
Permanent link to “Ithaca Gorges Smoked Porter”
Permanent link to “Great Lakes Blackout Stout”
Permanent link to “Flying Dog Raging Bitch Belgian IPA”
Permanent link to “Southern Tier Mokah”
Permanent link to “Ringwood Old Thumper”
Permanent link to “Blue Point Oktoberfest”
Permanent link to “Chimay Tripel (White) Cinq Cents”
Permanent link to “Otter Creek Oktoberfest”
Permanent link to “Tröegs Java Head Stout”
Permanent link to “Lindemans Framboise”
Permanent link to “Lake Placid Honey Rye”
Permanent link to “Stevens Point Nude Beach Summer Wheat”
Permanent link to “Lindemans Pomme Lambic”
Permanent link to “Rogue Juniper Pale Ale”